This brief presents findings from a random assignment experiment to test the effect of offering a prepaid incentive of $2 to National Beneficiary Survey sample members. Overall, the prepaid incentive increased the survey completion rate by 1.6 percentage points.
This Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods is an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with collecting data from and about people with disabilities.
This Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods is an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with collecting data from and about people with disabilities.
This presentation examines whether the responses provided by proxy respondents in the National Beneficiary Survey are systematically different from those provided by self-respondents with disabilities.
This report describes the data processing procedures performed for Round 7 of the NBS.
This report summarizes the editing, coding, imputation, and weighting procedures as well as the development of standard errors for Round 7 of the NBS.
This codebook provides extensive documentation for each variable in the NBS Round 7 Public-Use file.
This report provides users with information about the NBS restricted-use and public use data files, including construction of the files; weight specification and variance estimation; and a detailed overview of the questionnaire design, sampling, and data collection procedures.
This Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods is an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with collecting data from and about people with disabilities.
This Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods is an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with collecting data from and about people with disabilities.
This Compendium of Disability Data Collection Methods is an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with collecting data from and about people with disabilities.
This brief showcases how behavioral science can be used to boost call-in rates for surveys and increase our understanding of characteristics, experiences, and behaviors when administrative data sources don’t provide the kind of rich data we need.
This codebook provides extensive documentation for each variable in the NBS-General Waves Public-Use file.
This public use file is available for the National Beneficiary Survey General Waves Round 5.
This report provides information about NBS restricted- and public-use data files, including file construction; weight specification and variance estimation; masking procedures employed in Public-Use File creation; and a detailed overview of the questionnaire design, sampling, and data collection.
Reviews best practices to promote monitoring consistency.
Summarizes the literature on monitoring as well as the results of an ongoing study.
Most survey organizations use monitoring to evaluate the performance of telephone interviewers, identify problems with survey questions, and provide recommendations for interviewing techniques or methodological investigations of questionnaire designs.
This newly updated guide provides an easily accessible source of research on the methodological issues associated with surveying persons with disabilities. Mathematica prepared the first version of the guide in 2006.
As a collaborator with the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics, Mathematica has been identifying the strengths and limitations in existing disability data collection in both content and data collection methodology.
Policymakers are exploring ways to include people with disabilities more fully in society. Part of that inclusion effort is to make sure that they can participate in key surveys, and that these surveys accurately identify their abilities as well as any challenges and impairments.